_Edward Stillingfleet_, 1635-1699: a clergyman of the Church of England, he was appointed Bishop of Worcester. Many of his sermons have been published. Among his treatises is one entitled, _Irenicum, a Weapon-Salve for the Churches Wounds, or the Divine Right of Particular Forms of Church Government Discussed and Examined_. "The argument," says Bishop Burnet, "was managed with so much learning and skill that none of either side ever undertook to answer it." He also wrote _Origines Sacræ, or a Rational Account of the Christian Faith_, and various treatises in favor of Protestantism and against the Church of Rome. _William Sherlock_, 1678-1761: he was Dean of St. Paul's, and a writer of numerous doctrinal discourses, among which are those on _The Trinity_, and on _Death and the Future Judgment_. His son, Thomas Sherlock, D.D., born 1678, was also a distinguished theological writer. _Gilbert Burnet_, 1643-1715: he was very much of a politician, and played a prominent part in the Revolution. He was made Bishop of Salisbury in 1689. He is principally known by his _History of the Reformation_, written in the Protestant interest, and by his greater work, the _History of my Own Times_. Not without a decided bias, this latter work is specially valuable as the narration of an eye-witness. The history has been variously criticized for prejudice and inaccuracy; but it fills what would otherwise have been a great vacuum in English historical literature. _John Locke_, 1632-1704. In a history of philosophy, the name of this distinguished philosopher would occupy a prominent place, and his works would require extended notice. But it is not amiss to introduce him briefly in this connection, because his works all have an ethical significance. He was educated as a physician, and occupied several official positions, in which he suffered from the vicissitudes of political fortune, being once obliged to retreat from persecution to Holland. His _Letters on Toleration_ is a noble effort to secure the freedom of conscience: his _Treatises on Civil Government_ were specially designed to refute Sir John Filmer's _Patriarcha_, and to overthrow the principle of the _Jus Divinum_. His greatest work is an _Essay on the Human Understanding_. This marks an era in English thought, and has done much to invite attention to the subject of intellectual philosophy. He derives our ideas from the two sources, _sensation_ and _reflection_; and although many of his views have been superseded by the investigations of later philosophers, it is due to him in some degree that their inquiries have been possible. DIARISTS AND ANTIQUARIANS.